Re: [rtcweb] Which hashes are valid for the fingerprint attribute?

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 11 July 2014 18:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Which hashes are valid for the fingerprint attribute?
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On 11 July 2014 11:05, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 July 2014 05:26, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
>>
>>    hash-func    =  "sha-1" / "sha-224" / "sha-256" /
>>                          "sha-384" / "sha-512" /
>>                          "md5" / "md2" / token
>
>
> Firefox supports sha*.  We will not support md* and don't believe that
> we are obligated to.  Forbidding md* might be a good idea:
> https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/security-arch/issues/10

Oh, and I forgot to add, like Chrome, we will *provide* sha-256.  For
the near term, that is what we consider to be the right choice.